We must avoid the encouragement of young people's imagination.

Official Swedish teaching guide, quoted by Roland Huntford in The New Totalitarians (p. 233)

[T]he Swedes are a warning of what probably lies in store for the rest of us, unless we take care to resist control and centralization.

Roland Huntford, The New Totalitarians (p. 348)

Two centuries ago the United States led the world in a movement to disestablish the monopoly of a single church. Now we need the constitutional disestablishment of the monopoly of the school.

Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society (p. 16)

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